Movie Review - Drive 8.2/10

This movie is pretty timeless. One where the main character has no name, has a role and fills it. Hes a driver, its what he does, and he does it well.

The only things that date this movie are the vehicles. If it wasnt for the vehicles this movie could have come out in 2000,1990,1980,1970,1960,.... The story is pretty decent but at times the pacing is slow, which would be okay if it were filmed in 1970 or so. At times the music is super loud and doesnt really seem to fit the scenes that well. It wasn't just music, but they were songs with loudly sung words about being a real human being.

Ryan Gosling, and Ron Perlman are the only names i recognized in the movie.

Synopsis

Theres a guy thats a part time movie stunt driver, part time mechanic. On the side hes a wheel man for random criminals. He starts hanging out with his neighbor and her son. He likes them but her husband gets out of prison. He owes money to people for protection in prison. He gets beat up, and the bad guys threaten the girl and her kid. Driver doesnt like it, so him and convict dad go do a heist on a pawn shop. It goes bad, convict dad dies, and girl criminal and him drive away. Later she gets shot and he has a million bucks in a bag. He tries to give it back, but the bad guys want to kill him, so he kills all of them. During all this at one point the little kids mom sees him stomp a guys head in to protect her and himself and shes very shocked and leaves. He calls her and she wont talk to him.

He drives away.

The chase scenes were pretty cool, and ryan gosling was really good with the hyper violent scenes. He played them to a T. He seemed very akward in social situations, which was part of his character, and he played that well too. The girl didnt seem worth fighting for, and at the end he left the million dollars lying on the floor as he drove away.

I feel that they could have done a bit more with the movie. Paced it a bit better, changed the music or toned it down some, maybe the girl could have died and he leaves with the boy. It has some very scenes that reminded me of Casino, but the ending felt blah.

It was a good film, very stylistic, and timeless.
Its a solid rent, and a maybe watch in theater this weekend, but next weekend Killer Elite comes out and that looks a bit more action packed if thats your thing.